On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:08:56 +0100 "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <k...@shike2.com> wrote:
> It is due to git keeps the api in small programs than you could use in your > scripts. These small programs are 100% Unix philosophy (do only one thing and > do it fine, write an output that can be used as input for other, ...). Work > with these low-level progams (plumbling in git vocabulary) is hard, Get Plan 9 and spend some time writing shell script using nothing but the programs Plan 9 provides. With a little persistence you'll find how much better it is to have a few (tiny) tools than a huge mess of different ones. -- Developing the austere intellectual discipline of keeping things sufficiently simple is in this environment a formidable challenge, both technically and educationally. -- Dijstraka, EWD898, 1984
